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CVE-2016-0749

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The smartcard interaction in SPICE allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (QEMU-KVM process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to connecting to a guest VM, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
• The SPICE Project spice: all versions

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00004.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3596
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3014-1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1204
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1205
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-05
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00004.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3596
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

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